"aem" > wrote in message
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> chris wrote:
> > 2 questions for the experts out there...
> >
> > 1. I'm sure many of you would agree that an ideal diet should
> include
> > a wide variety of vegetables everyday, but if for some reason you had
> > to eat the same, say, 4 or 5 vegetables each day, which would be the
> > healthiest to consume?
> >
> > 2. If my daily diet includes a big bowl of raw spinach, steamed
> > broccoli, carrots, tomatoes, and other vegetables, am I at risk of
> > overdosing on vitamin A, which I understand has high concentrations
> in
> > spinach and other vegetables? If so, how do you recommend I change
> my
> > diet?
>
> Even with 4 or 5 veggies you can have variety, especially if they are
> from different families--i.e., cabbage and broccoli would give less
> variety than broccoli and tomatoes. A friend ate several carrots every
> single day without fail for months and her skin turned yellow. Other
> strange symptoms appeared, she went to the doc, who diagnosed vitamin A
> overdose. His prescription was, stop eating so many carrots.
>
> I doubt there is a real answer to "which would be the healthiest."
>
> -aem

I've a couple of comments.
First, she may have been low thyroid or developing diabetes.
I understand such person tned to accumulate carotene.
Second, there is a report going back in WW2 in Great Britian
in which people starting huge amounts of home grow carrots
as it was what they had. They started having problem
that were attributed to the carrots. The claim was that
carrots contain a toxin that gets to be too much when
they are too big a portion of the diet. In light of
this the advice the others gave to vary and rotate
your vegetable makes lots of sense. I doubt carrots
are the only vegetable with one might get too much of a
plant toxin.


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